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MUSIC DVD ROUND-UP
Oasis show their capacity to entertain remains undiminished on Lord Don 't
Slow Me Down (Sony) eee
which follows Noel and Co round the world on
the tour to support Don't Believe the Truth. More acourately it shows the relentlessness and tedium of touring and Liam and Noel‘s fondness for stumping foreign journalists with surreal one-liners. The film, pointlessly shot in black and white to make it look arty instead of capturing the beauty or oddness of some of the places they visit, offers few new insights, but is worth a look to see a well oiled Charlotte Church haranguing Noel, fresh off the stage in Cardiff. Well Deep: Ten Years of Big Dada Recordings (Big Dada) eeee celebrates a decade of Britain's most stimulating hip hop label. bringing together their promo videos and a documentary about the genesis of the label. The highlight here just also happens to be their finest hour commerCially, Roots Manuva’s hilarious school sports day promo for ‘Witness'. is another chapter in the tabloidising of hip hop music and should be avoided. Take a peep instead at Tupac: Assassination
Beef IV (SonyBMG) e
(Liberation Entertainment) eee
and Notorious BIG’s Bigger than Life
(SonyBMG) 0000 . both of which employ a style over substance approach to the rap stars' deaths but include some rare footage and credible interviews.
We've technically mentioned ldlewild's Scottish Fiction (Parlophone) 00.. already. as it comes with the band's ‘Best Of ' compilation. but as an example of giving a sneak peak into the life and processes of a band in an unaffected truly human way there's few to better it.
Not quite so much fun to be had in the company of The Fratellis (Island) captures a band worryingly short of charisma with clinical accuracy and comes over as boorish and flat.
The prime concern with the intergalactic spectacle that is The Flaming Lips’ live show is that the music comes off second best to confetti. spacecraft and dancing santas. UFOs at the Zoo (Warners) eeeee suggests instead that the melee is fuelled by the otheworldly magic in the music. Constructed along the same lines as the ldlewild film, where the concert footage is interspersed with documentary footage. we see the build up and aftermath of this homecoming show in an outdoor amphitheatre in Oklahoma City Zoo. We see the show from a fan‘s perspective. out in the parking lot. in the queue and in the crowd, beautifully capturing the sense of occasion.
REM Live eeee (Warners) isn‘t quite so extravagant but instead captures the band live in Dublin in 2005 in crisp. slick fashion. The set lifts mostly from their most recent album. Around the Sun. but there's enough from elsewhere to justify admission. (Mark Robertson)
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" a the plus side Love/Hate boasts a fair amount of infectious tunes fuelled by howling guitars. thundering drums. squealing solos and Sam Forrest's famously gruff vocals. but it all sounds too clean. Clinical and overproduced to make for anything speCial. With bands like Gallows
and Enter Shikari around. British rock is currently going through something of a renaissance. and this kind of pedestrian Output only serves to give the genre a bad name.
(Camilla Rial
METAL DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Ire Works
(Relapse) eeeee Having written the
definitive math-metal album With 1999's
Calculating Infinity debut.
DER have faced incessant Criticism from
a select few for daring to expand the sonic palette.
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DAVID SHRIGLEY AND VARIOUS Worried Noodles "Tonilat; COO
The concept was cute. Glasgow artist Shrigley writes the words. scores of musicians - 39 of them! — from David Byrne to Franz Ferdinand to Deerhoof supply the music. The reSLilts vary Wildly. from harmonious folks plucking to Winsome electro to heisterous pop. The commonality is that most have picked up on the warped sense of reality and fun borne put of Shrigley's art. Like his books. you're bOund to find something here that leaves you cold while others you“ cherish forever.
iMark Robertson)
JAZZ
PORTICO QUARTET Knee-Deep in the North Sea
(Babel Vortexi COO.
The first release on the new label jOintly run by Oliver Weindlings The Babel Label and the London jazz club The Vonex features the debut album from a yOung group attracting a lot of attention at the moment. Their groUp SOund — and a conSiderable part of their fascination — centres on the unusual percussion instrument at
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Deiiseo D\ a Swiss couple and piaied by Nick lVlLllN/C‘y and drummer Duncan Bellamy it brings a uniuue and beguiling colour to the iiuartet’s instrumental sound. dovetailed With the more conventional soiiics of Jack Wylies sopiano saxophone, Milo Fitzpatrick's double bass and Bellamy 's drums. The quartets music is equally intriguing. bringing together and reshaping a variety of strands from jazz. world leSic and contemporary classical sources. (Kenny Mathieson)
DUBSTEP BURIAL Untrue (Hyperdubl 00.00 ;§:,m
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This is as far from the blissed-out Ibiza late- night comedown as you c0u|d ever Wish. Burial's intention was to create a soundtrack for a moment in the middle of the night; a moment of dark contemplation and he has does so in his own unique Style.
This album is about the phosphorous glow of streetlights. the click and purr of a CCTV camera. snatches of wailing dance muSic from a passmg mini- cab. the rhythm of rain on the roof of a car. imagine the first Streets records Without the vocals. left out in the cold to get all teary eyed and reflective. Driven by mechanical drum breaks and given a wistful beautiful melancholy through disembodied vocal snatches. down-a-well Synths and lots and lots of bass. Untrue is both disconcerting and mowng. often in the same tune.
(Mark Robertson)
LCD Soundeyetem .15 33 (OFA’EMIl James Murphy and Pet Mehoney Fabric/we: 36 (Fabric) A pair of LCD related mixtapes emerge Within weeks of each other, the former an extended jam Murphy reCOrded tOr Nike which gets a physical release while the latter is 70 minutes of fascinating, if obscure disco nuggets and punk funk oddities. The Warlocks Heavy Death Skull Lover (Tee Pee) Winsome pop in the style of BOyzone . . no. wait a minute. that's not It. This is the insane satanic retro rock one isn't it? Frightened Rabbit Sing the Greys (FatCat) An expanded version of this exceptional band's debut filled with lurid vivid lyriCism and nifty twisted folky arrangements. Various Jalapeno Funk Vol 1 (Jalapeno) Not the vegetable oflenfoundin Mexican food but a Spicy compilation of beats, breaks and general funkoonery from this studious young English label. Wet Wet Wet Timeless Pellow and his compadres reform for their eighth studio album of River City $0ul.
John Vandenlice Emerald City (Barsuk) Eminently likeable singer-songwriterly character studies from this immensely underrated mu5ical talent who moonlights as techie journo. Orayetar A Million Pieces (Graystar) A collection of fresh anthemic indie turns from this Liverpoool/ Edinburgh quintet. The Heavy Great Vengeance and Furious Fire (Ninja Tune) Big Led Zep riffs are to the fore for this interminably funky outfit's debut. Buucociu Buzzcocks: 30 (Cooking Wnyl) The original punk popsters are wearing well as this invigorated live album attests.
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